Social Dinosaurs



they watch us

to you or me, a crow

is a crow, but they know where you live


they know all

about you, and your trash

and how you treat your corvid neighbors


in quiet

nest speech they talk of love

but public caws are all about you


and your cat

they see you feeding her

you are on the list and all crows know


in Jonesville

and over to Waycross

in Willow Valley you're known on sight


your lights went

out in a blaze of sparks

shorted by feathered suicide squad


screwdriver

near the opened fuse box

crow ninjas had to pick toolbox lock


nestlings watch

they remember naughty

and nice, they keep _my_ shrubs beetle free


caw!!